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Full Name
  
Joseph Weisberg

Role
  
Television writer

Occupation
  
Writer, producer

Education
  
Yale University


Years active
  
2011–present

Siblings
  
Jacob Weisberg

Name
  
Joe Weisberg

TV shows
  
The Americans

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Nominations
  
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series

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Joel Fields, Graham Yost, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Holly Taylor

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Joseph "Joe" Weisberg is an American television writer-producer, novelist, and former CIA officer. Weisberg is best known as the creator and executive producer of the FX TV series The Americans.

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Career

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A 1987 graduate of Yale University, Weisberg became a CIA officer three years after graduation, and after a short career with the Agency taught high school in New York City before enjoying success as a writer.

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Weisberg wrote episodes for TNT's alien invasion series Falling Skies and the DirecTV legal drama Damages. He is the creator of The Americans, currently airing on FX, which centers on two KGB agents posing as American citizens in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s; the series is executive-produced by Weisberg and Justified creator Graham Yost.

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Weisberg authored two novels: 10th Grade and An Ordinary Spy. An Ordinary Spy was nominated for the Believer Book Award.

Personal life

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Weisberg grew up in Chicago, the son of civil rights attorney Bernard Weisberg and former Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg. He is the younger brother of Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg. Weisberg married Julia Rothwax, former press secretary to presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bill Bradley, in 2005. The couple have a daughter.

Falling Skies

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  • "Silent Kill" (1.05)
  • "Mutiny" (1.09)
  • "Love and Other Acts of Courage" (2.05)

    • Damages

  • "Next One's on Me, Blondie" (4.04)

    • The Americans

  • "Pilot" (1.01)
  • "The Clock" (1.02)
  • "In Control" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.04)
  • "Mutually Assured Destruction" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.08)
  • "The Colonel" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.13)
  • "Comrades" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.01)
  • "Cardinal" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.02)
  • "Operation Chronicle" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.12)
  • "Echo" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.13)
  • "EST Men" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.01)
  • "Baggage" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.02)
  • "Stingers" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.10)
  • "March 8, 1983" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.13)
  • "Glanders" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.01)
  • "Pastor Tim" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.02)
  • "Roy Rogers in Franconia" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.12)
  • "Persona Non Grata" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.13)
  • "Amber Waves" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.01)
  • "Pests" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.02)
  • "The World Council of Churches" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.12)
  • "The Soviet Division" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.13)

    • References

    Joe Weisberg Wikipedia
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